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Vocabulary Roundup for the Blogpost ”Is (X) mé — An (X) tusa? — Saying “I am a (X)” — “Are you a (X)?” in Irish” (Cuid/Pt. 1) Posted by on Oct 29, 2017

(le Róislín) Most of the vocabulary in the last post (nasc thíos) was probably pretty straightforward for any advanced beginner or intermediate learner.  But there may have been a few less common words, which we’ll look at here: 1: As “comhrá a haon (Puimcín agus Tornapa) a)) svaeid (an svaeid, iol: na svaeideanna), swede, a…

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An Litir ‘V’ in Aibítir na Gaeilge (The Letter ‘V’ in the Irish Alphabet) Posted by on Oct 6, 2013

(le Róislín) Some of you may have been surprised to see the combination “tv,” followed by a vowel, in the recent post about “tvuíteanna” and “tvuíteáil” (  https://blogs.transparent.com/irish/how-to-say-tweet-and-twitter-in-irish/).  Admittedly, it’s not at all common in Irish, or, for that matter, in any other languages that I’ve been able to check (with Russian city and river “Tver”…

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